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Rey Trevino, Oil Exec at Pecos Operating, and podcast host of the Crude Truth, and I had the opportunity to visit with Larry Richards who is the President of the Permian International Oil Show. Man, I had an absolute blast and learned a lot about the history and the hard work it took to put on the festival. I could not call it a show as we had way too much fun podcasting live from the Air Compressor Solutions booth. A shout out to Brian Stubbs for hosting us and providing a great place for interviews! https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianstubbs/
You can reach out to Larry on his LinkedIn page HERE: https://www.linkedin.com/in/larry-richards-91aa3643/
00:48 – Overview of the show and its importance in the Permian Basin. Discusses the $60 billion Exxon deal, the role of the oil and gas industry, and the history of the volunteer-led Permian Basin International Show.
04:55 – Explores the equipment displays, demonstrations, and technological innovations at the show, highlighting its global significance in the onshore oil and gas industry.
08:02 – Emphasizes the importance of technology and innovation in the oil and gas industry, especially in the Permian Basin. Encourages the next generation to join the industry and highlights its role in providing affordable energy and raising global living standards.
13:14 – Inquires about the number of countries represented at the show.
14:38 – Commends Larry Richards, the President of the show, and his enthusiasm for the industry. Discusses the positive impact of the show on the community and local companies.
16:08 – Interviews Brian Stubbs of Air Compressor Solutions, discussing the history of their booth, vintage equipment on display, and the restoration of a 1930s-era truck.
18:33 – Talks about the significance of the show in promoting their brand and providing high-tech solutions for air compressors and generators in the oil industry.
23:16 – Highlights the sense of fellowship and camaraderie at the show.
25:08 – Explores the show’s importance, the history of the oil and gas industry in the region, and Brian Stubbs’ company’s role as sponsors for the podcast and support for the industry.
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Stuart Turley [00:00:03] Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Energy News Me podcast. My name’s Stu Turley president and CEO, the Sandstone Group. We’ve got an action packed podcast for you today. I’m kind of having some serious fun. I’m here in Midland Odessa, and I’m here at the. I’m sitting here talking to Larry Larry Richards. I’m at the Permian Basin International Oil Show, and I’m having an absolute blast. And also join me here is the Rey Trevino. And I mean, Rey is one of them NPR operators. He’s out there drilling oil for our wonderful low cost energy for the United States. And I’ll tell you what, Larry, you’re the president of this great show. [00:00:48]Tell us about what you got going on here and tell us about the show. [3.2s]
Larry Richards [00:00:52] Oh, thank you so much for the opportunity. No, we’re we’re incredibly excited about this year’s show. We’ve got over 750 exhibitors from all over the United States, from all over the world. Wow. 1100 exhibits. Foos sold out again this year. We’re very blessed to be sold out, but we anticipate over 25,000 attendees over three days. And over the last 5 to 7 years, and you can attest to Detroit, the Permian Basin has become the Center for Innovation and Technology for our entire industry. Oh, you bet. 20 years ago, when I was starting my career, all the innovation happened deepwater, offshore and international. That’s right. And the last 5 to 7 years, all the major technical technology breakthroughs for our industry, about more than 150 miles of where we’re standing. And there are no better place to see that new tech than right here. You know.
Stuart Turley [00:01:42] What’s kind of cool is the $60 billion Exxon deal. You know, you sit back and take a look. Permian is going to be here. Well, why would any oil and gas company invest in the Permian Basin for 60 billion unless it was really important?
Larry Richards [00:01:57] Absolutely. And, you know, the hard work that the men and women in the Permian Basin do, you know, allows every American to have a standard of living our great grandparents couldn’t have dreamed of. Oh, yes. And, you know, for them to be able to come here, put their hands on the absolute latest, greatest tech anywhere in the in the world and be part of that. We’re just we’re proud we have a the show has done completely with 150 industry leaders that volunteer their time as our board of directors.
Stuart Turley [00:02:29] Wow.
Larry Richards [00:02:29] Every committee that we’ve got out here working to show we’re all volunteers. And I think that’s a big part of our success. They’re industry leaders. They know how hard it is to break away. They want to make sure somebody takes the time to come here, send their employees here. They’re going to get a big bang for their buck.
Rey Trevino III [00:02:43] Yes.
Larry Richards [00:02:43] And and, you know, get a return on that investment. And we’ve been able to do that for a long number of years. And I think this year we’re not going to cover off the ball since 1940. Every other year we do it. Not every year it’s a bi annual, but the show started in 1940. It was postponed for a couple of shows through the middle of World War Two. Right. For all the men and women in their grade up to go fight for our country. And it’s been run every ever since. Wow.
Stuart Turley [00:03:12] You know, Archie, tell us, you know, a pass in. Next question. I’m sorry. You know how podcasters are, though.
Rey Trevino III [00:03:19] Well, you know, first of all, thank you for having us at the Permian Basin International Show. And a quick shout out to air compressor solutions for having us here at their booth this week or this week. Okay. I mentioned them and you mentioned the rich history of 1940. Air Compressor Solutions. They say they’ve had this booth for almost 40 years. I mean, let’s talk about the lineage of all the different companies out here that have their spot reserved. And I’ve even heard rumors that if you drop off of it, there’s already a waiting list for others. Is that true?
Larry Richards [00:03:49] Yeah, that is true. And we’ve been very blessed in that regard. You know, our honoree, Mr. Dick Sables, who just given so much to our industry and to our local community, his company out here builds all types of production equipment. He shared with us yesterday during our luncheon for him. They’ve had a booth out here since 1951. Wow. And so, you know, it’s just it’s amazing the legacy of these different companies. But then, you know, we also have brand new start up companies, you know, that are bringing artificial intelligence and machine learning, integrating it with these companies. And so it’s a really cool mix. And even the legacy companies, they’re bringing, you know, their absolute newest tech out here, several of our our biggest pieces of equipment out here, the technology that’s driving those pieces of equipment didn’t exist two years ago at our event. And it’s just amazing to see that kind of innovation, you know, and go actually be able to touch it. And and if it’s a client out here that wants to go put it in the field, you know, nine times out of ten, they can have it loaded on a truck and headed to their field wherever it is across the United States next month.
Rey Trevino III [00:04:55] Well, are you saying that, you know, there’s so much equipment out here that’s literally on display, that’s well, that’s also active, you know, like, hey, let’s try trial. Right now. You got drilling rigs, set up cranes set up generators here. I mean, you’ve got just equipment everywhere, even trucks for sale out here and leased. So I understand and I see where all the other oil and gas shows. This is the standard. This this is the standard for every other oil and gas show in the nation and in the world. Well, it’s just us or worse.
Larry Richards [00:05:26] You’re trying to be. Like I said, we know how busy everybody is. But for the onshore oil and gas industry, this is the leading trade show in the United States, which makes it the leading one in the world. I mean, I’m for my companies some exhibited all over the world trade show type of match and the Permian Basin International oil show was always our best return on investment. And I think it continues that for companies today. And it’s a place where people can come and see whether it’s, you know, reducing emissions, like what your solutions guys were, you know, all of the pneumatic. Typically, we’re utilizing the methane gas off the separator to actuate all those small pneumatics and but they release it to the air, can now do it with compressed air. But their technology is breaking that, and that’s spreading everywhere across the Permian. And the generational jumps in this technology to handle these late this newest generation of. Well. Right. It’s just a really cool time to be in our industry.
Stuart Turley [00:06:30] These are AI. The new technology is one of the reasons that we could go from 1200 rigs to down to 700 and then down even more. And this is the year that the Permian is kicking out more oil than anything else. It’s got to.
Larry Richards [00:06:45] Be tech, right? We will we will have the largest oil and gas production in history out of the Permian this year. Right. But but a lot of that is is tech. A lot of it is the new technology on how these wells are being drilled. But that’s what’s spawning all these new companies and all this new technology right now. We used to go horizontal, I mean, vertically, and you break out to the side, you’re perfect and fracking and you’ve got kind of a Christmas tree looking deal. Now we’re going down a mile, we’re going horizontally two miles. We’re putting a football field worth of sand into a form, into a shale formation. It’s a non permeable rock that we’re making into a permeable formation, and they’re coming in at 1500 barrels a day or what? And what when they come, they come back. Really high pressure with a lot of sand. It’s like having a, you know, oil sandblast or on all your equipment up top. And it’s taken us five or six years to figure out how to produce those wells and complete them in the most cost effective. It’s a great problem to have because you have a lot of volume, but it costs a lot of engineering and technical issues. Right now, all these companies out here are solving and now we’re 5 to 7 years ahead of anywhere else in the world. So are all the other natural oil companies everywhere else are coming to the Permian trying to understand how we’re doing it so they don’t have to learn that in the middle of the Algerian desert or, you know, anywhere and halfway across the.
Stuart Turley [00:08:02] World, you know, aren’t the best deals that the investors you’re seeing out there now. Let me ask this, because in the Bloomberg when they were talking about that gigantic deal, they were saying that the next move for M&A in the Permian is looking for PDP and existing production because of jet lag. Just what you said and I’m sorry, I get just as excited as you is because going in and reworking those wells with the new technology is pretty cool because you’re doing that now. Your fields We.
Rey Trevino III [00:08:32] Are. We’re doing it in our fields also, but also out here in West Texas with with the new technology that Larry, you know, talks about. And that’s all out here, some of these Tier two and Tier three well sites out there could actually now become tier one locations just because that crazy technology that we have now to extract those hydrocarbons from the ground. And so it’s just so exciting. And again, you know, the big deal, you know, with Exxon purchasing Pioneer, that just if that doesn’t motivate, you know, West Texas to continue on and drill, baby, drill for the next hundred years. I don’t know what does.
Larry Richards [00:09:07] Right, Larry? Very true. And it’s funny, some of these these fields, my dad, you know, had a 50 year career in the oil and gas industry. But in the 1960s, he was area superintendent for Getty Oil Company and Andrew’s Row and some of the fields that are some of our most prolific fields. My dad would have told you, you know, they were mostly drilled out in the sixties, you know, But now technology has opened up all these different reserves. We knew the oil was there. We just couldn’t get it out of the rock. Yeah. And now there’s with these new ways, but it’s spurning so much innovation across the industry and opportunities for new start up companies even, you know, that are coming out with products. And two years later, it’s an industry standard for that little niche because they’re solving a problem that didn’t exist before.
Stuart Turley [00:09:53] How do we get the next generation in here? Because you got a museum over here. Oh, where? How do we get the next generation excited Because a I. A techno guru. I’m a technical noob. I mean, that’s an honor. You know, now that you could be a nerd. You know, I’m proud of myself. I’m a legend in my own mind.
Larry Richards [00:10:12] We’re proud of you, too.
Stuart Turley [00:10:15] Thank you. I just. My own mind already knows that it’s the next generation of all guys. We need them. And you just nailed it with the A.I.. That’s how we get people excited about the oil and gas industry. That’s how we do it.
Larry Richards [00:10:30] Right? I agree with that. I also think we’ve got to tell our story because we have an amazing story to tell. I shared with some some folks in our opening ceremony. We had a bunch of young people there, you know, with the vans and all the stuff that’s part of opening ceremonies. But that, you know, in 2023, about 8% of the world’s population lives in abject poverty and finds it about less than $2 today. But before the Drake will, the Drake well was drilled back 200 years. 1823. Eight out of ten humans on the planet lived in abject poverty and had 300 years before that. And having low cost hydrocarbon energy available to everyone for transportation and climate control and all the things we use it. And then you add to that 55% of our global food production comes from synthetics, from prosthetic fertilizer, from natural gas derived directly from urea and ammonia from natural gas. And nobody talks about the fact that over half of the world’s food production is coming from our industry. And then I told all the young people, I said, From the time you woke up this morning and hit your alarm clock and you got your toothbrush, brush teeth, and you shave space, or your ladies did their legs and you drove here or you rode a bicycle here. And I said, from the time you did it, everything, 90% of what you touch was built with petrochemicals. Been in our industry all the hard working men and women who get up in the morning to go to work that, you know, that’s who you need to thank. Because the standard of living you live, your great grandparents dreamed of hurt. And I think most of our young people don’t realize that because they’re not ever hearing that.
Stuart Turley [00:12:04] You know, that’s funny. I’m visiting with some folks in Africa this afternoon and also tomorrow morning, the secretary general of one of the biggest outfits out there. And he is really fighting because the West is taking so many natural resources from Africa and they’re forcing in all the renewable energy and then charging them high interest rates. The world financial Group is in double charging them. You have China doing their Belt and Road initiative and they’re doing it. Well, let’s let the world do low cost energy, get the lowest kilowatt per hour to everybody on the planet. And man, I’m going to hug you, because that is that’s what it’s all about, is elevating humanity out of poverty. Well, you’re you’re so tired of me saying.
Rey Trevino III [00:12:59] No, it’s it’s what we need to do to get out of poverty for the world is, you know, oil and gas and really natural gas. Is that real? It’s a burning building. Yes. That we can use. You know, I want to jump back to the international side of everybody being here. You know, [00:13:15]do you know exactly or about how many different countries you have here at the Permian Basin International show this year? [5.5s]
Larry Richards [00:13:22] Exhibitor wise? We’ve got you know, we have over 20 companies from Canada, but we’ve got them from Germany, from the UK, from Norway, from South Korea, from just a whole litany of different exhibitors that are here from around the world. I think the biggest deal and we don’t keep track, and I wish we did because I’ve gotten that question. But you know, I’m admitted exhibitor every year until this year. I retired all this last year but but but as an exhibitor I was always amazed in all the different places around the world that we had people coming in. This year. I know it’s even more I had old customers of mine called six months ago. It’s like, Oh, we saw you’re in the president. We want to bring in some of our top executives from Libya, you know, and we had a guy and a guy call me and say, Hey, I got this group from Guyana that once did. They found some big reserves and they want to come, you know, no deaths. And I was like, I don’t care. No hotels, I cannot help you, you know? Yeah, I would recommend you get it in the rights, right. This, you know, it’s part of the next 11 minutes if you want a hotel because they booked up way in advance. But but it’s just been so cool. The outreach I’ve just done on LinkedIn and different things, you know, as we prepare for the show from people coming from from overseas to try to get to see what we’re doing here and take that innovation and take it back with them.
Stuart Turley [00:14:38] Oh, that is so cool. So you’re only the president for this year?
Larry Richards [00:14:42] Yes, sure. Okay. I’ve been on the board for a little over 20 years, but we we, we we work in energy working board. You’re not on this. It’s not a resumé deal. So you’ve got to be on the board of directors the whole show. You’re going to work and we we have our whole team and then, then you can move up to the board then. Yeah, they were. I was honored. To be selected as the president this year.
Stuart Turley [00:15:03] Fantastic. Now, RT, as soon as I mention oil, you go being your you’re. You’re like a hound dog on board room. And I’m sitting there going, let’s talk about show your eyes. Folks, we are podcast listeners. Larry’s eyes are just there, wide open. His physical body is going nuts. He’s excited. And so I see our team when he’s doing his podcast, The Crew Truth, he’s doing the same thing in his guest. You’re kind of like, I need a guy like that interviewing me. And so it’s so fun to see your enthusiasm. So it is an outstanding congratulations. And I know you’re going to just go to nap for three years after you’re done here.
Larry Richards [00:15:45] Yeah, it’ll be one show. Yeah, it’s been a great show and it means so much for our community and for these local companies because because you have people coming from all over, they’re able to diversify their revenue streams. So when we had a cycle, you know, they’re picking up customers internationally, they’re picking them up all over the country, and so they can weather those cycles so much more effectively. It’s it’s it’s a win win for everybody.
Rey Trevino III [00:16:08] Know. It really is. And again, you know, this show has just been so amazing and congratulations. And now I actually want to bring in the owner, president and CEO of Air Compressor Solutions so that a long time. Sorry about that, Brian. How are you doing this morning? Awesome. And the thumbs.
Brian Stubbs [00:16:28] Up, It’s not hot yet.
Larry Richards [00:16:30] Good day.
Rey Trevino III [00:16:30] It is a good day. Thank you so much again for allowing us to be here with you guys this booth. And what a heck of a team you’ve got here. And this is probably one of the better spots right here of the entire show. Is this right here up front is where you are at as everybody comes. But you might.
Brian Stubbs [00:16:48] Know this better than I do. I think we’ve had this same booth for like 40 years. And I think that’s what the previous owner told me. This is this is like part of the purchase of the company.
Larry Richards [00:16:56] Exactly. Yeah. I also put a lot of yesterday, I think some of the transactions that have happened, at least part of the multiple, was based on their bids for that.
Brian Stubbs [00:17:06] It was part of the conversation for sure. Do I get the briefs. Basically giving. Them the space? So we are very excited to be here.
Stuart Turley [00:17:12] I just moved the camera over here and got a shot of your truck. Oh, the old. And then I moved a moment apart. So tell us about your truck. Actually, that.
Brian Stubbs [00:17:21] Truck came out of my uncle, restored these trucks and I was able to get that about six, eight months ago. And the petroleum Museum here in town actually had that old air compressor in their shop, and they didn’t have a use for it. So we were able to get that from the air compressor. And so everything. On that truck is from the. 1930.
Stuart Turley [00:17:42] Wow.
Larry Richards [00:17:43] Awesome. I did not know that.
Brian Stubbs [00:17:45] So the jackhammers are from the thirties. There’s three jackhammers. And then. We have just started a fabrication group at AX, and our fabrication group made the skid that goes in the back. And we try to make that look like one of our modern service tracks as close as we could.
Rey Trevino III [00:17:59] So I tell you what, people that that’s not a conversation starter. I don’t know what is.
Brian Stubbs [00:18:05] The we can sit it out two jobs we it goes about 25 miles an hour will be there. When we get there. If it’s an emergency, don’t call that truck.
Stuart Turley [00:18:13] But it’s a good thing you showed up because I already sold it for 100 K. Yeah, I’ve got.
Brian Stubbs [00:18:18] A few offerings. I got a little bit yesterday. I think I. Footprint. Press is still here.
Stuart Turley [00:18:22] For our podcast listeners. He just went and spent everywhere. So I mean he was like, no, you didn’t show my truck.
Rey Trevino III [00:18:29] Like you did right by the.
Brian Stubbs [00:18:30] Radiator. My idea.
Rey Trevino III [00:18:33] Well you know Brian for this being again, y’all have been doing this now for almost half a century. Yes. You know, what is one of the things that really sticks out to you with the Permian Basin International Oil show?
Brian Stubbs [00:18:43] It’s actually methane. And we’ve talked about this. When it’s cold or oil’s bad, we still do it. And it really is. Again, we have a great, great big space, but it’s about getting our brand out there again, even if we don’t talk to anybody, people see the brand, they see us, they remember us again. People come up and say, Hey, yeah, we. Were here two years ago. You’re still in the same. Boat, it’s good to. See you. And then two weeks. Later they give us a call. So it really is just about being visible in there. Also does a great job. With advertising the month leading up to it. Collecting leads. They do a great job of all that kind of stuff and it is really just getting the brand out there. Everybody still knows we’re around when we’re at the oil show. Which is. Always good. And like I say, we can do social media and that kind of stuff, but there’s nothing like just having your brand in front your customers face ads and it’s a big payoff every year.
Larry Richards [00:19:27] Yeah. And it’s it’s fantastic for us because they’re bringing the technology that our attendees need to see. For example, you know, this type of unit where you’re you’re using compressed air or the natural gas off a separator. Historically, you had air compressors on location, but they were not driving anything vital. They were doing, you know, flow chart. So everybody from a field standpoint thinks, oh, it’s an air compressor. You know, it doesn’t know whether it runs or not. Well, now they’re replacing the separator, which means every time the dumps go to the tanks, whether it’s oil, whether it’s water, everything else. Everything’s been driven by that that air. And so it cannot go down or you have oil overflowing a tank or you have produced water on the ground and then you’re like, it’s incredibly exciting. Yeah. In ways you do not want in a short period of time. Sure. But, but, but that’s that all of a sudden you’re tied in all kinds of high tech and automation and everything else into these types of systems to where you can put them out and you’re 100% sure they’re going to be reliable. Right. And so, you know, but that didn’t exist five years ago before we started trying to replace every pneumatic. We just tried them into a separate and now we’re using the natural gas. But every time that little, you know, instrument would move, it would spend a little tiny bit of methane in it. We’ve eliminated that with this type technology. But it hasn’t one has to be, you know, and then all the young engineers want to see on their phone whether it’s running or not.
Brian Stubbs [00:20:52] That’s what kind of this one is. You can see this on your phone in that goal. But that’s that’s where we’ve gone this year, is we started making these in-house. We’ve made that circuit in-house. Now we’re doing we have a tiny group, two guys, but we have an elite group that’s growing. And so the customer hooks up electricity and then they hook up a captive cable and they’re able to get eight channels of data. And they can know the pressure, they know how long it’s running, they know. If it’s got any faults and they can look at it in their office or on their phone. And who would have ever thought, you need that in an hour? Yeah, exactly. So but it’s been an awesome project. Again, the team’s done a great job. Customers have been really receptive to it and hey, it’s just a neat deal to see how integrated air compressors are now to groups.
Larry Richards [00:21:31] Yeah, and then you’ve got this on the emission control side, and then you’ve got all this stuff for water recycling and re-use out here. You’ve got all this new technology that’s that’s now using shredded natural gas for the big pop up and a four megawatt gin set over there that’s using fuel gas like its own little power plants. Oh, my God. I mean, it’s just it’s a cool found to be out here. It is a lot of new lots of new stuff to go look at, that’s for sure.
Rey Trevino III [00:21:56] Yeah, that is for sure. You know, Brian, you mentioned here that many go. You go. Yeah, I’ll meet somebody here. And then two weeks later, they call you. You know what? What are all the services that you guys are doing here? The air compressor solutions? Well.
Brian Stubbs [00:22:08] I tell everybody, mostly when I talk to bankers and stuff because they don’t know what we do in the oilfield at the time. That’s my job now. I just talk to bankers all day. But, you know, really we I equate ourselves to a car dealership, so but we do air compressors and we do generators. So we have a group of salesmen that go out and sell them. We sell parts for them. We have a service group that does service at our shop here in Odessa and other locations. And we actually on field techs to go out in the field, we have a rental fleet. So if you need one overnight, you need one for a couple of weeks. Plants down by maintenance, we can rent you one. And then now we started a fabrication group, so now we can actually modify them and specialize them for what the customer needs. We are actually opening up our fifth branch, so we have a branch. Our main location is here in Odessa. We’ve got a branch in Amarillo, Albuquerque in El Paso, and we’re opening up one in Carlsbad and we’ve got all over the place.
Rey Trevino III [00:22:59] You know, Larry and Stu, this man has done nothing but COVID. It’s just continued to rise. But we’re not.
Brian Stubbs [00:23:06] Doing it again. We’re not doing it. It wasn’t easy. Why did you just say he had COVID? No, no, no, not right now.
Rey Trevino III [00:23:16] Oh, that. No, But during that whole time, from 2020 on, you know, personally, it’s just not he’s done nothing but continue to grow. But I also need to say thank you to Brian here, because being a sponsor, I called him up when I first started my show, The Crude Truth, and I go, Hey, I’m doing I’m going to do a podcast. Would you like to be a sponsor? You’re sure?
Brian Stubbs [00:23:35] Oh, what’s it about? Right. Yeah.
Stuart Turley [00:23:38] It’s true that as well as we talked.
Rey Trevino III [00:23:45] I gave him a little bit of info about what it was. He goes, Oh, yeah, no problem. So, so, so Brian also. And then yesterday a couple of his teammates. Well, how do you know Brian? I said, actually, Brian turned me down for a job four or five years ago while I. Yeah. Five years ago and but he has just been asked to read it.
Brian Stubbs [00:24:02] He said. We’re going to keep in touch.
Rey Trevino III [00:24:03] Though. Yes. No, we have we have you know, there are pacos you know, I ended up staying there and we just continue to grow in and I’ll call Brian up every now and then go, Brian, Hey, I’ve got, you know, just as a mentor. And so I can’t thank you Jim enough for that. And also I’d like.
Brian Stubbs [00:24:19] To this boy has been five.
Rey Trevino III [00:24:20] Yeah, yeah, it hasn’t if.
Stuart Turley [00:24:22] We ever made not hiring RT. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I get his number outside of work then. I’m sad because I get the label over to you guys.
Rey Trevino III [00:24:36] I cannot thank you enough. Larry, thank you so much for this awesome show that we have. Brian, again, I’m humbly thank you so much for allowing us to be here, for being here at the show and and at your booth. And, you know, hopefully, hopefully, if nothing else, there’s nothing but great fellowship. And a little bread was broken. And that’s that’s what it’s about. Absolutely. It has. I would say that’s the crude truth.
Stuart Turley [00:24:59] To close this out, tell us how everybody can get.
Rey Trevino III [00:25:02] Well, everybody, if I get here. All right.
Stuart Turley [00:25:06] You guys. And how you.
Rey Trevino III [00:25:08] That’s all about to say. Let’s go down the line, Larry, for those out there that don’t know you and want to get in contact with you for the next one or two years or just anything else. How can people get a hold of you?
Larry Richards [00:25:17] Sure. Go to our website. It’s PBI or show dot org. And if you’re coming here today and we got onto the the frequently asked questions tab, you can go. There’s short videos on how to find parking on a free register all kinds of bullcrap but we’re still open through through Thursday of this week. But they can do all their interface through the or call the all show office here, no doubt. Now we’re just we’re like I said, we’re thrilled to do this for the industry. It’s a way we get back to the industry and and and appreciate the opportunity to talk about it.
Stuart Turley [00:25:49] Marketing, it’s kind of fun. And then we have to have say, I’ve never seen so many trucks and all my life on curbs trees behind me. So it’s a safety man. Do not look at the parking lot.
Rey Trevino III [00:26:03] Yes. And Brian, before you go, I just want to do a shout out to Austin Burk, your sales guru out here, that just put this whole thing together. Awesome.
Brian Stubbs [00:26:12] Did most of the booth this year. He took that over, and that’s awesome.
Rey Trevino III [00:26:16] So let’s do it. Well, but how can people get in contact with you?
Brian Stubbs [00:26:20] Like I said, we’re we’re here in Odessa, Texas, on Government Highway. You can always stop by the shop, visit us on the Internet. It’s AC us, iReport.com. And then our phone number is 4323, 355900. And we can get you whatever you need for questions generally.
Stuart Turley [00:26:35] Sounds good. Thank you so much for having us here and for coming in. And I’ll tell you what, I can’t wait to see you as a sponsor here at our Nate Booth. Very good.
Brian Stubbs [00:26:43] For you. I’ve never been this good.
Stuart Turley [00:26:46] Thank you guys very much. And we will see you guys next on the Crude Truth and the energy news beat for you. We see you on the sand. So great. We’ll see you guys next time. Bye.